obsolete 1. Old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable. 2. Superseded by something newer, although possibly still in use. 3. A description of a part or organ of an animal or plant that is undeveloped or no longer functional. 4. A reference to words, equipement, etc, no longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference...Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/3415/

This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed, A positive statute, unrepealed, can never be repealed by non-use alone. The disuse of a law is at most only presumptive evidence that society has consented to such a repeal; however this presumption may operate on an unwritten law, it cannot in general act .....Found on http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/o030.htm

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